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SOCIAL SECURITY:

(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election
years. !

Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social
Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for
persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they
should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years
ago they voted in their own

benefit plan.

In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need
to change it. After all, it is a great plan.

For all practical purposes their plan works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until
they die.

Except it may increase from time to time for cost of
living adjustments.

For example, former Senator Byrd and Congressman White and
their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that's Seven
Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives
drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives.

This is calculated on an average life span for each of
those two Dignitaries.

Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will
receive much more during the rest of their lives.

Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00.
NADA....ZILCH....

This little perk they voted for themselves is free to
them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds
for this fine retirement plan come directly from the
General Funds;

"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"!

From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or
have paid) into, -every payday until we retire (which
amount is matched by our employer)- we can expect to get
an average of $1,000 per month after retirement.

Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average
of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month
to equal Senator! Bill Bradley's benefits!

Social Security could be very good if only one small
change were made.

That change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement
Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them
into the Social Security plan with the rest of us ... then
sit back and watch how fast they would fix it.

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness
will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.

How many! people can YOU send this to?

Keep this going clear up thru the 2004 election!! We need
to be heard